Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

It caught me by surprise, but our local indie book dealer sponsored Dennis Lehane at the Groton Public Library. The place was packed, with both overflow seating outside the room and cars parked on a nearby athletic field.
The real surprise though was that I had seen him in Boston talking about Live by Night (as I recall, that was the trip where Carol sent me into abandoned mall on the bad side of town), this talk was completely different. As always, he was funny and engaging.

Barry wrote: "It caught me by surprise, but our local indie book dealer sponsored Dennis Lehane at the Groton Public Library. The place was packed, with both overflow seating outside the room and cars parked on..."

glad you got to go, barry. i couldn't and was totally disappointed to have missed it.

Comcast is supposed to show it on public access. The whole thing was taped.

What a pleasant surprise Barry! I loved getting to see Dennis speak a few months ago at our library. He is a very interesting man!
Neil Gaiman is scheduled to come to Nashville July 10 and I eagerly await seeing him.

Barry wrote: "It caught me by surprise, but our local indie book dealer sponsored Dennis Lehane at the Groton Public Library. The place was packed, with both overflow seating outside the room and cars parked on..."

Barry wrote: "as I recall, that was the trip where Carol sent me into abandoned mall on the bad side of town..."

Yeah right. Shows how much you know. Chestnut Hill is the exclusive side of Boston, you just happened to catch the mall "between clients."

In other Lehane news....

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/den...

As someone on Facebook says, "not sure how I feel about this..."

Glad to hear you got to see Lehane. He is always entertaining. For those near Boston, he is speaking at the Kennedy Library outside of Boston, a fundraiser for the One Fund supporting the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. June 11.

So you admit it was the bad part of the exclusive side of town.

I'll reserve judgement on Lehane writing Travis McGee, but why do they call it a WW2 novel? I believe the story is about a fortune stolen in WW2, but the novel takes place much later.

Barry wrote: "So you admit it was the bad part of the exclusive side of town.

I'll reserve judgement on Lehane writing Travis McGee, but why do they call it a WW2 novel? I believe the story is about a fortune..."

Well yes, never let it be said that I lead you to the bad part of town.

I'm less concerned about Lehane writing McGee than I am about DiCaprio being "attached" to the project. If by attached they mean "slated to play McGee," well, to me that's like Tom Cruise playing Reacher.

I need to get to the Reacher movie this weekend, Carol -- so I can form my own opinion. ;)
I can see Dennis enjoying writing McGee and imagine he will add some nuance to the HBO series Boardwalk Empire too as he was named creative consultant late last year for season four. I am happy for his success. Maybe crazy, but he reminds me of a musician who tries out all kinds of different sounds and excels at a wide variety (like Paul Simon, who often reinvents himself )
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I'm less concerned about Lehane writing McGee than I am about DiCaprio being "attached" to the project. If by attached they mean "slated to play McGee," well, to me that's like Tom Cruise playing Reacher. "